Colorado Department of Transportation

Colorado law includes fines for misusing I-70 mountain express lanes

For truckers (and all other drivers for that matter) tempted to sneak into Colorado’s Interstate 70 mountain express lanes when they’re closed — they’ll soon be captured on camera.

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Gov. Jared Polis signed a bill into law Tuesday allowing the Colorado Department of Transportation (CDOT) and its vendor to use the express lanes’ existing license plate cameras to send automatic fines to drivers caught venturing into them when they’re closed. The...

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Colorado trucking company takes ‘huge hit’ from I-70 closures

Mudslide across I-70 in Glenwood Canyon, Colorado in early August 2021.

Carriers in the trucking industry have been trying to dig themselves out of a hole ever since monsoonal rains hit western Colorado this summer.

The storms came during normally dry months of the year, leading to major mudslides that blocked about a 20-mile stretch of Interstate 70 multiple times in the Glenwood Canyon area, about 160 miles west of Denver. This is part of a vital corridor for long-haul freight and agricultural products, according to the Colorado Department of Transportation (CDOT).

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